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In the debate over how much augmentation makes a picture "fake," my basic rule is, I don't use Photoshop or other tools to create something that doesn't appear in nature - unless that's the point of the image, in which case, I'd be very clear that it's a fantasy.

So, No - you can't see the Milky Way over Seattle like this, but only because the lights of the city obscure it. If everyone in Seattle agreed to turn out their lights on a Summer evening, this is the sky we would see.

For this image, I stole the sky from a spot near Mount St. Helens, and placed it over the Seattle, shot from Gasworks park.

I'd been playing with photographing crashing waves for a chunk of the day, and not really getting anything great, so I decided to get out from behind the viewfinder and enjoy the sunset with Karen. That's when she said "Wouldn't that wave crashing in front of the sunset make a nice shot?"

Needless to say, she was right. I shot about 15 exposures; the rest are just ok, but this one is just all right.

I spent 45 minutes picking the perfect spot to shoot the stars, tripod set, lens focused, and I was about to enjoy my sandwich, when I saw the Sun pop through. All plans due to revision, when beauty presents.

I love the textures in this shot. It looks like a map of a real place you could visit. I took this with a 600mm lens. People often shoot the full moon, but there's more shadow and texture on a partially obscured moon.

I was at the intersection of Denny and Aurora, waiting for the light to change when I really took notice of this retro neon sign.

Photographing it was an experiment that turned out exceptionally well. As grimy and broken down as it is in the day, by night it's pristine and clean light. I have a print of this one, and it's beautiful.

This is one of my favorite shots. It can be a bit disorienting at first. On the bottom, you see an old school windmill, on the southern horizon, on the top you see the northern horizon, with a modern wind turbine, and the Milky Way stretches between them. The wind turbine on top looks smaller because it's farther away.

This is a panoramic image, so it has the pixels to be printed HUGE. If you're looking at it on a large monitor, it may appear pixelated, but that's just because the preview image is being stretched to many times its size. If you want to print this 50' tall, contact me. I'm serious, it'll go that big.

In the Spring of 2016 I went to the top of Columbia Tower at least half a dozen time to shoot time lapses of the city. There are so many things to shoot up there, but the weather doesn't always cooperate, so I went again and again, until I got it right. This is a still from a moody time lapse I shot on a foggy evening

This is one of the first successful Milky Way pics I ever took. I lucked into a good location (there are no bad ones at Crater Lake), and used everything I had learned thus far to capture the entire MW.

It took two nights to get this shot. The land was shot from Johnston Ridge Visitor Center, and the sky from a couple miles West of there. I chose two locations to get the best view of the caldera, while pushing the light pollution of Portland away from the core of the Milky Way

I was shooting time lapses from the rooftop at Rockefeller Center, and kept coming back to the simple beauty of this building. It's a luxury condo building at432 Park Avenue. What you see here is just the part of the building that sticks above everything else on the NYC horizon

In August of 2016 I camped there with a few good friends. This late in the season, the Milky Way is pretty far West by the time it's dark enough to photograph. That makes it difficult to photography in conjunction with the mountain, so I decided to focus on the mountain, rather than the MW.

I set up my camera and left it to shoot an all night time lapse. It's always a risk leaving it out, so when I left the comfort of my sleeping bag at dawn, I was pleased to find my camera exactly where I'd left it. I was even more pleased to see the lenticular clouds in the images.

This shot is part of a time lapse you can view in the time lapse section of the site.